Door-bell



2 Sheets-=Sheet 1.

(No Model.)

-W. H. FAUBEB.

DOOR BELL.

Patented Jam 29', 1889.

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W. H. FAUBER.

DOOR BELL.

No. 396,993. Patented Jan. 29, 1889..

UNITED, STATES PATENT FFIGE.

\VILLIAM H. FAUBER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

DOOR-BELL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 896,993, dated January 29, 18 89.

Application filed August 30, 1888. Serial No. 28 L120. (No model.)

T 0 aZZ whom may concern.-

Be it known that I, 'ILLIAM ll. FAUBER, residing at Chicago, in the county of (look and State of Illinois, and a citizen of the United States, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Door-Bells, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a central. vertical section. Fig. 2 is an end view of the tube which contains most of the operating devices, showing also the devices which are in view. Fig. 3 is a section at line 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is aplan of the strikers and block to which they are secured. Fig. 5 is a side view of the slotted plate, the movement of which operates the strikers. Fig. 6 is a central vertical section showing how the strikers can be operated by pulling instead of pushing. Fig. 7 is a detail, being a side elevation of the casting B shown in Fig. (i.

This invention has for its objectto improve door-l; ells and their operating mechanism of the type known as gongs, and the invention consists in the novel features of construction and combination of dcwices hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, A represents a wallby the side of an outside door.

(I is a hole through the wall A.

B is a casting secured to the inside of A, which casting has a tubular part, Z), which is to be inserted in the hole a.

C is a gong supported on the arm 0, which, as shown, is an extension of the inner end of the tube, said arm and tube being integral with the casting l3 and extending horizontal] y therefrom in opposite directions.

(1 '(l are two strikers, one of which only is seen in Fig. l. Jhei1n1erends of these strikers are secured to a block, c, which is pivoted in the tube 7) on a pivot, f. r

g is apin secured to the block c, and extend ing outward therefrom a short distance toward the center of the tube.

71 is a plate provided with a slot the opposite walls of which are zigzagged.

j is an ear on the plate 71 which car is provided with a screw-threaded hole.

It is a push-rod provided, as shown, with a screw-thread, by means of which it is co11- nected with the earj, and can be adjusted as "may be necessary on account of different thicknesses of walls.

Zis a push-button on the outer end of the rod 7;.

m is a support and guard for thepush-button.

n is a coiled. spring to return the push-rod and plate 71 to place.

The operation is as follows: Bypushuig 1n the push-button Z the sliding plate it will be moved toward the bell, and the walls of the slot, passing over the pin g, will rock the block 6 on its pivot fand rapidly vibrate the strikers, which, of course, are to be arranged so that when vibrated they will come in contact wlth the g(')ng. As shown, the push-rod 1.: is supposed to pass through the hole in the casting B; but it is not necessary that this push-rod should be as long as shown in the drawings. A single striker may be used; but I prefer two.

In Fig. (3 I have shown a modification, by the use of which the strikers can be operated by a pulling movement instead of a puslnng with.

As shown in Figs. 6 and 7, the wall of the casting B is provided with a notch having two inclined walls, a a, and the operating-rod r is secured at one end to the ear j, and the other end passes up through a hole in the casting B, and is then bent over and down between the two walls a a of the notch in this casting 1 "In Fig. (i the casting l3 and bell may be supposed to be located upon a wall, E, in a room of some distance from the outside door. A wire can be secured to the outer end, to, of the rod 1*, and thence carried to the outside door and there be opcrateijlv by a bell-pull, intermediate bell-crank levers and other devices being used, as is common for pull-bells.

In the modification. shown in Fig. (3 the strikers are operated by the movement of the slot-ted plate It the same as in Fig. 1. The

. passage of the bent end of the rod r over either wall of the notch in B will. cause the slotted plate h to move over the pin g the same as before described. The position of the bell and casting '3 maybe such that there will be a direct outward pull on the bent-over end of the rod '0, instead of an angular pull, the effect being the same.

movement, the msh-button being dispensed It is not intended that the bent-over end of the rod 12 will be arranged so as to pass at the same time over both of the walls to a; but the arrangement of the bell maybe such that such rod will pass over either one of such Walls.

hat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

1. The casting B, formed integral with the oppositely-projecting tube 1) and arm 0, and the gong C, mounted on the arm, in combination With the block 6, pivoted inside the tube, and having the pin g and a striker, and a lengthwise-movable rod extending into the tube, and provided therein with an attached plate, h, having a slot, 1', provided With a zigzagged Wall, and into Which slot projects the pin on the pivoted block, substantially as described The combination, with a gong, C, and a casting, B, having a tube, 1), of the block 6, pivoted in the tube, and having the pin g and a striker, and a lengthwise-movable rod extending into the tube, and having an attached plate, It, in the tube, provided with a slot, 1, having a zigzagged Wall, substantially as described.

The combination, With a gong, C, and a casting, B, having a tube, Z), of the block 6, pivoted in the tube, and having the pin g and a striker, the plate 71, located in the tube, and

having an ear, j, and a slot, 2', provided With a zigzagged Wall, and a lengthwise-movable rod engaging said, ear to move the slotted plate, substantially as described.

4. The combination, with a gong, C, and a casting, B, having a tube, 5, of the block e, pivoted Within the tube, and provided with a pin, g, and a striker, a plate, h, in the tube, having an ear, j, and a slot, 2', provided With a zigzagged Wall, and a push-rod, k, extending through the tube and engaging the ear to move the slotted plate, substantially as described.

5. The combination, with a base-p1ate,B, having the oppositely-projecting tube b and arm 0, of the gong C on the arm, the block 6, pivoted on the tube, and provided with a pin, g, and a striker, the plate h, having a slot, 1, provided with a Zigzagged wall, and an ear, j, provided with a screw-threaded orifice, and the push-rod it, having a screw-thread engaging the orifice in the ear, for operating the slotted plate and adapting the parts to different thicknesses of walls, substantially as described.

lVILLIAH H. FAUBER.

Vitnesses:

HARRY T. JONES, ROBERT A. M LLAR. 

